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March 25, 2009
Book Quotes We Use a Lot
“I have no more run in me.” —That’s Good, That’s Bad by Joan M. Lexau, illustrated by Aliki
“Koala Lou, I DO love you!”—Koala Lou by Mem Fox
“Bub.”—from the book of the same title by Natalie Babbit
“Never tease a weasel, not even once or twice…”
“Pish, posh, said Heironymus Bosch.”—quote and title by Nancy Willard. Also:
“‘Forever and ever, my nibble, my nosh,
Till death do us part,’ said Heironymus Bosch.”
—and readers of Scott’s blog will recognize his sometimes-tagline taken from the same much-love
March 24, 2009
Grape Soda Lupines
These grow wild on the roadsides here, intermingled with the wild mustard. Just gorgeous. They’re supposed to smell like their name, but we couldn’t catch the faintest whiff of grape.
March 23, 2009
Bwah?
Sorry about that rogue Twitterlog that cluttered up your Reader this afternoon. The auto-post went AWOL for two weeks, so I did it manually yesterday. And then today it shows up out of the blue. All righty, then.
Twitterlog 2009-03-23
30 Poets/30 Days
So, so, so excited am I. So will you be, too, when you hear the news. Gregory K. Pincus, the inventor of the Fib, has put together a wonderful bloggity adventure for National Poetry Month: he’ll be posting a previously unpublished poem by a well known writer every day in April. The poets include: Arnold Adoff, Jon Sciezka, Jane Yolen, Jack Prelutzsky, April Halprin Wayland, and so many more. 26 more, to be precise. Hop over to Greg’s blog and find out all about it.
March 22, 2009
Twitterlog March 9-20
3/9
• Beanie and Rilla march into the room hand in hand. “We’re going on a long and perilous journey to seek a nice monster who’ll growl at us.”
3/10
• Today’s readaloud interrupted by 1 leaky diaper, 2 bouts of spit-up, 2 toddler squabbles, 1 desperate need for snack, 1 agonizing tiny bruise.
• Beanie: “Mom, when you read to us while we’re eating, it makes this cheese taste better.”
• Wow is my house looking lived in today.
• My preschoolers are fighting over which one of them owns the living-room ru
March 21, 2009
Mid-March Garden Notes
In Virginia, we always used to plant our peas around St. Patrick’s Day. Here in San Diego, we’re harvesting them. My mother helped the girls put in a small vegetable garden during her visit in January: lettuce, tomatoes, basil, beans, peas, cucumbers, carrots. Which, now that I see the list written out, doesn’t sound small at all.
The peas—they planted just a few starts—are ready now, affording the children the singular delight of picking and eating them warm in the sun, impossibly sweet, crisp,
March 20, 2009
Caught Reading This Week
Beanie:
Legion of Super Heroes (Showcase Presents)
Your Big Backyard (magazine)
Rowan and Ice Creepers
Rowan and the Travelers
Rowan and the Zeebak
Rowan and the Keeper of the Crystal (Emily Rodda’s Rowan books are perpetual favorites around here)
Only Opal
The House in the Night
Rose: (she’s been on a picture book kick)
The Day Leo Said I Hate You
Cookies
Chrysanthemum
Tales of Trotter Street
So You Want to Be an Inventor
Miss Suzy
Marshmallow
So You Want to Be President
The Plain Princess
The House in
March 19, 2009
Out of Control
My current TBR stack. Stacks, rather, collected from around the house for one brief precarious moment.
A mix of review copies, library books, kid requests (“You’ve GOT to read this, Mom!”), and titles gleaned from favorite bookish blogs like Semicolon and Mental Multivitamin.
Doesn’t it make your heart go pitty-pat? Such a comfy feeling, knowing there’s plenty to choose from the next time I sit down to nurse the baby…
(And how about my super-classy bedside table? Yes, that’s the top of a bar stool
